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Academy Level 8Certified to build and run an Atlas for a focused scope: fewer departments, one diagnosis cycle, a roadmap your leadership can hold in one meeting.
Your Fractional AI Officer's first job is your Atlas — the eight-to-twelve-week map of where AI belongs in your business, what it should do first, and what it must not touch. Then they run it, on the Platform: scoped briefs, vetted vendors, milestone approvals, escrow held until you approve, and a weekly report to your leadership.
Just as every company has a fractional CA — seniority on rent, part-time, inside the company — every company now needs a fractional AI Officer.
Seniority, on rent. Outcome, owned.
We reply within one working day. Not ready for a retained officer yet? Atlas Lite is the smaller step — about three weeks, credited in full if you go further within 90 days.
A company of two hundred to two thousand people needs someone senior who owns AI: someone who reads the P&L from the inside, negotiates with your kind of vendor, sits in the leadership meeting and answers for the result. It rarely needs that person five days a week. And it should not have to bet a full-time hire on a field that moves every quarter.
Finance solved the same problem a generation ago. The fractional CA is senior, part-time, inside the company, and accountable for the outcome — not a visitor with a report. That is the shape of the role. The AI Officer brings it to the part of your business that has no owner yet.
Embedded in your leadership team from week one. In the meeting where the decision is taken, not in the deck that arrives after it. Your department heads know them by name.
A consultant hands you a recommendation and leaves. Your officer holds the agenda, briefs the vendors, approves the milestones and reports to you every week. If it slips, it is their slip to fix.
An operator who has done this before, for the hours your company actually needs. Part-time, scoped to your company after the scoping call. Ongoing, so the map never goes stale.
The Big Four sends a deck. We send an operator. Consulting firms are built to bill hours, then leave. We are built to live inside your business until the work is real.
Three phases, one officer, one workspace. The first builds the document. The second runs the company's AI against it. The third keeps it honest.
Interviews across your leadership, a data inventory, a scan of your sector, and every department scored on the same four dimensions. Five parts, one coherent map.
From the day the Atlas is signed off, the officer moves from building it to running it. Every project on the Platform, benchmarked against the map.
Part E is rewritten from what changed inside your business and what changed in the world. Then the next ninety days are re-planned against it.
Want the full anatomy of the document? Read the Atlas page →
The Atlas and everything built on it belong to your company. The Fractional AI Officer is a role, not a person — designed to be a temporary role, built for continuity. Every interview, decision, brief, weekly report and result is recorded in your company's Platform account against the Atlas itself.
If your officer changes — rotation, promotion, your own hire — the next one, trained on the same method, picks up the baton from the record, not from zero. Your AI path keeps its history and keeps its plan.
Embedded from week one. Writes the Atlas, briefs the vendors, files the weekly report. Everything they do lands in the record.
The single place the role lives. Whoever holds it, this is what they work from.
Rotation, promotion, or your own hire. Trained on the same method, they read the record and continue the plan. Not from zero.
The Atlas, its history and its plan are your company's property. No officer takes them when they leave; no officer needs to.
The role is built so that the person can change without the work stopping. That is a feature, not a risk — it is why the record exists.
Same method, same structure, same account. A new officer reads the last weekly report and the current Part E and is in the meeting the same week.
Every Fractional AI Officer is certified through the AI Officer Academy and placed to match your scope. Three tiers, one method. The tier follows the size and complexity of your company; the way they work does not change.
Certified to build and run an Atlas for a focused scope: fewer departments, one diagnosis cycle, a roadmap your leadership can hold in one meeting.
Certified for the full mid-market scope: every department scored, multi-system, multi-vendor, a twelve-month roadmap with owners across functions.
Certified for group scope: multiple units or plants, a shared map with per-unit scoring and a governance layer across them.
Placed to match your scope. We name the tier on the scoping call, with the reasons. The tier decides who holds the role; it does not decide how much oversight sits behind them — that is the same for every company.
Your officer's work is reviewed every week by the Think Tank — operators who have run companies, built technology and sold to your customers. The review happens on the work, inside your account: the briefs, the vendor calls, the weekly report. Not a quarterly steering committee. A senior bench, every week.
Your Fractional AI Officer works inside platform.theaiofficers.com — one workspace holding the Atlas, its projects, briefs, vendors, escrow, weekly reports and meeting records. It is the same account your Atlas Lite report lives in. Only you and the officers you authorise see it, and everything they do inside it stays with you.
Your leadership reads the weekly report, the open briefs and the escrow position in the same account, without asking anyone for a status update.
Every rupee of vendor delivery sits in escrow until your team approves the milestone. No exceptions.
Meeting records and decisions are filed against the Atlas as they happen. This is what makes the role independent of the person.
One fixed number would scare a smaller company if set for a large one, and short-change a large one if set for a small one. So the retainer does not carry one number on this page. It carries one promise, and four terms.
The retainer is named in writing before we start and never revised mid-cycle. If you began with Atlas Lite, its ₹1,00,000 is credited in full against the first invoice (within 90 days).
Scoped to your company after the scoping call. The hours follow the scope, not a standard package.
The first builds your Atlas, the second runs it — then quarterly.
After the first two quarters, thirty days' notice ends the retainer. The Atlas and the record stay in your account.
The retainer is to the role. If the person changes, the role, the method and the record do not.
Mid-market businesses — roughly two hundred to two thousand people — running on several systems and several vendors, where nobody senior currently owns AI and the leadership wants that to change this year.
If what you need is a single document to circulate, or you are ready to appoint a full-time head of AI this quarter, this is not the right door. We will say so on the call.
Not sure which door? Talk to us — or start with Atlas Lite.
No. A consultant advises and leaves. Your Fractional AI Officer is an operator with an owned agenda and accountability for it: they write the briefs, approve the milestones, hold the vendors to them and report to your leadership every week. The Atlas is the direction; running it is the job.
The role continues. The Fractional AI Officer is a role, not a person — designed to be temporary, built for continuity. Every interview, decision, brief, weekly report and result is recorded in your Platform account against the Atlas itself. If the officer changes — rotation, promotion, your own hire — the next one, trained on the same method, picks up the baton from the record, not from zero.
No. Atlas Lite is the smaller step — about three weeks, all remote, a written report of the possibilities you are not yet capturing. Some companies want that view before they commit to a retained officer; others go straight to the retainer. If you did start with Atlas Lite, its ₹1,00,000 is credited in full against the first retainer invoice within 90 days.
Only you and the officers you authorise. Your workspace on the Platform is your company's property; no other client sees it, and nothing in it is used as case-study material. Think Tank oversight happens on the work — the briefs, the vendor calls, the weekly report — inside your account, under the same access you control.
Yes. Some companies do, once the Atlas has shown them what the role needs to be. The Atlas, the record and the plan stay yours either way — the retainer is to the role, and the role is designed to be picked up by whoever holds it next, including your own hire.
Named in writing after the scoping call, once we know your headcount, your systems and the scope of the first two quarters. It is never revised mid-cycle. The quote is the ceiling.
Talk to us. Our team studies your company before we meet, prepares a brief tailored to your business, and walks you through what the first two quarters with your Fractional AI Officer would look like: who would hold the role, what the Atlas would cover, and what the retainer would be, in writing. No deck. No procurement dance. No obligation.
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